The caravan route between Matadi and Leopoldville is as free from danger as a European road, and a complete service ofporterage by natives has been established.
We may pass the Report of the Commission in so far as it deals with the taxation of the natives, food taxes, porterage taxes and other imposts.
Between the provision tax, porterage and paddlers, I believe that the people of Bompona have got very little time to themselves.
As all porterage has to be done by natives in Central Africa, a railway is even more necessary than where wagon transport is available.
He was making one of his hurried rushes with the porterage of money on an afternoon in Spring, when a young female plucked at his coat, and his wrath at offenders against the law kindled in a minute into fury.
